Not many years ago, I was always carrying packs of Antacids, Cetirizine, Paracetamol and a few other tablets in my office bag. I used to experience gastric issues, continuous sneezing and headaches. If I consulted any doctor, they usually said I am fine health-wise, may be I am taking more stress. I am advised to avoid taking stress, avoid taking sodas, ice creams, spicy foods and the list went on and on. I started feeling depressed about my health. I used to stay awake in the night for the fear that I may die due to heart attack. This went on for almost a decade.

Then I started doing some research on health issues and reasons for physical symptoms. Suddenly I realized how conscious mind, sub conscious mind and physical body are linked. Our physical body responds to the sub conscious mind. It was such an amazing feeling to know that our body actually speaks to us.

Whatever symptoms body is showing up, the body is not waging a war with us but trying to tell us that there is an issue in our thought process. Each issue in our life shows up in some part of our body. Financial issues and fear of future will give rise to pain in the lower back and right knee, inability to accept the feminine part of us (every human being will have both male and female energies within us) will give rise to pain in the left knee and left ankle, inability to accept and receive love will lead to cardiac issues. So what exactly is happening here? How can our emotions or thoughts be linked to physical illness?

We all know that whole of Universe is nothing but energy. Universe understands only the language of energy. We are all energy beings. All our thoughts, feelings, emotions are nothing but energy formats. Any moment the energy is stopped somewhere, it will create an imbalance in the body and body responds as dis-ease or illness.

We know both river and lake has the same water, why river water doesn’t stink but the water in the lake stinks? When you stop the energy from its natural flow, it starts stinking. When we experience a thought or feeling or emotion, if we don’t allow it to flow through us but hold on to it, the stagnant energy starts showing up in our body as pain or illness. We are not used to allow our emotions to flow through us, so all the unfelt emotional energy gets stuck up at specific body parts depending on which part of life it represents and what emotion it is and manifests as a dis-ease or illness in that part of the body.

Our body is trying to communicate with us. But we don’t heed to it, we just don’t want any inconvenience in the body. So we run to the doctor. But do you know the best doctor is your own body, which is trying to tell you something? You can always go to a doctor, but before you take an appointment and visit him / her, take a minute and listen to what your body wants to tell you.

One day I accompanied one of my friends to a doctor and I started sneezing. I was sitting in the hospital to see the doctor and was wondering if I need to go and buy Cetrizine or wait for the appointment to be completed. But suddenly I thought there may be a reason why I am experiencing sneezing. I started to look back at my day and realized that I got irritated with one of the discussions in my office. May be the irritation actually started showing up as sneezing. I just took a couple of minutes and allowed and accepted the discussion, accepted my reactions, allowed all the feelings and emotions I had. Extended love towards myself. It took about 5 mins and my sneezing disappeared.

Even my headache was not because there is some issue in my head, there was an issue with my digestive system. I was unable to digest what was happening in my professional life. This resulted into digestive issues and my symptom of headache. Whatever I was unable to accept in my professional life was giving rise to stress that created gastric issues. Isn't it wonderful that our body speaks to us so literally, irritation in nose actually was irritation with colleagues, inability to digest situation led to digestion issues!!

So give just a minute to what your body is saying to you, you will get to perfect health in no time. Give attention to your thoughts and emotions, your body is in complete sync with your emotions. If you keep denying your emotions, your body has no other choice than to push you into handling it. For any medical issue, you definitely have to seek medical attention. But along with medical attention, if you give your attention to what your body is telling you, you may get healed faster. Do you remember the old saying, “A stitch in time saves nine”?

From next week, we would discuss most common health related topics and the emotional reasons for experiencing each of the health issues.

Disclaimer: We are not suggesting that emotional reasons are the only cause for any ailment or dis-ease. This is no replacement for medical attention. Whenever required, please use your discretion and consult your doctor, general physician or request for medical help.

-Ramakrishna Maguluri
Engaging with life
ELAI
engagingwithlife@yahoo.com